In this episode of Trending in Education, host Mike Palmer interviews Tade Oyerinde, founder and chancellor of Campus.eduan organization offering accessible pathway programs led by professors from the best universities.
Tade shares how his unconventional homeschooling journey and subsequent experiences meeting poor adjunct faculty sparked his interest in transforming higher education. After a failed startup attempt, Tade found purpose in creating custom educational technology solutions for universities. Noticing the struggles of adjunct faculty and low community college completion rates, Tade acquired a small Sacramento college to test a new model: pairing exemplary faculty from elite institutions with community college students for classes synchronous online.
Operating out of this accredited campus “lab,” Tade and his team leverage their technological and entrepreneurial expertise to increase access, completion rates and career outcomes. They provide comprehensive support modeled after successful programs like CUNY ASAP. Tade explains how online learning – once an obstacle – is now an advantage, allowing students to learn from talented professors anywhere. He imagines campuses where everyone can access the best professors in their field.
In conclusion, Tade advocates combining traditional higher education and innovative technologies. It aims to demonstrate a new effective paradigm integrating both.
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